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Canadian Forestry Journal, February, i()i6. 



(Published in Collaboration with Canadian Society of Forest Engineers.) 



" I here areforeders whose vision sticks in the 

 iroods and does vat pierce through to the fact 

 that the welfare of the people, not the trelfare of 

 the comnnunity of trees, must he the aim of the 

 forest er^s endeavor. Forests are only the medium 

 through which he loorks. Tiie most .successful 

 forester is the one ivhose life and loorlc contribute 

 most fully to the necessity, convenience and 

 pleasure of the greatest mnnher of people, not 

 necessarily the one who groivs the most u-ood j^er 

 acre in the shortest time." — DuBois. 



The annual meeting of the Cana- 

 dian Society of Forest Engineers 

 was held in Ottawa on Tuesday 

 evening, January the eighteenth, at 

 the Laurentian Club. Mr. R. H. 

 Campbell entertained the members 

 of the Society at dinner after which 

 the business meeting was called to 

 order by the President, Mr. Clyde 

 Leavitt. The guests of the evening 

 were : Messrs. Bates and Kynoch, of 

 the Dominion Forest Products La- 

 boratories at McGill University, and 

 Robson Black, Secretary of the Can- 

 adian Forestry Association. Mr. A. 

 G. Gutches. Director of the New 

 York State Ranger School at Wana- 

 kena was one of the American mem- 

 bers of the Society present. 



The members attending the meet- 

 ing were, Dr. B. E. Fernow, Dean of 

 the Forestry School of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto: R. H. Campbell, 

 Director of the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch; E. J. Zavitz, Provincial 

 Forester of Ontario; G. C. Piche. 

 Chief Forester of Quebec, and Head 

 of the Laval Forest School; Clvde 

 Leavitt, Chief Fire Inspector to the 

 Dominion Railway Commission, and 

 Forester to the Conservation Com- 



l" mission; Messrs. Finlayson, Dwight, 

 iCameron, Wallin, Roberts, Dickson, 

 ' of the Dominion Forestry Branch ; 

 :L. M. Ellis, of the C.P.R. Railway; 

 Prof. W. N. Millar, of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto ; Prof. R. B. Miller, 

 of the University of New Bruns- 

 wick ; N. M. Ross, Dominion Forest 

 Nurserv Station, Ellwood Wilson 

 and Arnold Hanssen, of the Lauren- 

 tide Co., Limited. 



The Secretary's report showed the 

 Society to be in a growing and 

 flourishing condition ; eighteen new 

 members have been added in the 

 past year, Quebec and Maritime 

 Provinces showing the greatest 

 number of new members. The to- 

 tal membership is now eighty- 

 seven. 



The Society lost a valued member 

 by the death of Mr. Abraham 

 Knechtel, Forester of the Dominion 

 Parks Branch. It was decided to 

 issue a monthly news-letter to the 

 members and also to publish a his- 

 tory of the Society. A new caliper 

 for measuring trees, the invention of 

 one of the members, was shown. R. 

 H. Campbell was elected Chairman 

 of the Ontario Executive. Two 

 members of the Society were honor- 

 ed this year, George Chahoon, Jr. 

 was elected President of the Lauren- 

 tide Co., Limited, to succeed the 

 late Sir William Van Home, and P. 

 A. Sabbaton was elected Vice-Pre- 

 sident of the Laurentide Power 

 Company, Limited. 



An informal and very interesting 

 discussion on the Forestry Situation 



